June 9, 2025 The mandated hearings on the city’s class size plan for the 2025-2026 school year begin tomorrow. The Bronx hearing already occurred last week, but you can attend any of these meetings wherever you live, teach or your child attends schools. They each begin at 6 PM, but you can log in as […]
The original DOE spreadsheet listing schools by DBN & number of teachers to be hired is posted here. “
Thursday June 5, 2025 Just a quick message reminding you about our Parent Action Conference this Saturday, June 7 starting at 10 AM via Zoom and starring the eloquent Jamaal Bowman on how to fight the Trump agenda, followed by numerous workshops on topics critical for parents, along with an action agenda for our schools. Sign up here to reserve your seat. Also, don’t forget: Wed. evening, June 18, we will be […]
Monday June 2, 2025 1. Please come to our annual “Skinny award” dinner on Wed. June 18, at 6:30 PM. This year we will be honoring NY Education Commissioner Dr. Betty Rosa, who has provided strong and progressive leadership for the New York State’s education system for the last four years, and before that decades of achievement as a ESL teacher, Bronx […]
Wednesday May 28, 2025 Sorry for the last minute notice, but there’s an important vote tonight Wed., May 28, 2025 at 6 PM of the Panel for Educational Policy at the Michael J. Petrides School (715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island). On the agenda is revising and weakening Chancellor’s regulation A 820 on student privacy. According to these […]
We will be hosting our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC on Saturday, June 7, from 10 AM – 1:30 PM, via Zoom. The Keynote will be given by former NYC principal and Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who will speak about how we can defend our schools against the Trump assault on public […]
May 16, 2025 1.Please read and sign our letter, already signed by several members of the Chancellor’s Data Privacy Working Group as well as advocacy organizations and NYC Council Members, in opposition to the weakening of DOE’s student privacy protections in their proposed amendments to Chancellor’s regulation A-820. If you would like to sign on, please fill out […]
May 13, 2025 1. The NYC Council Education and Finance Committees are holding a hearing on the DOE budget and the School Capital Plan a week from today on Tuesday May 20; you can sign up here to testify. The hearing begins at 10 AM but public testimony won’t start until the afternoon and you can […]
UPDATED April 14, 2025 According to Twitter and the SCA website, the Mayor finally appointed Elizabeth Bergin as the third member of the SCA Board, after leaving the position vacant for almost two years. Bergin is the the Senior Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Strategy at the YMCA, and previously served as the SCA […]
March 23, 2025 On Thursday morning, I spoke at the School Construction Authority board meeting, down in the bowels of Tweed, explaining how they have failed to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations to provide schools with the space necessary to comply with the class size law, and the requirements of the Public Authorities Law. […]
Please join us on Wed. June 18 when we will honor Dr. Betty Rosa, former Bronx principal, District Superintendent, Board of Regents member and now NY State Education Commissioner for courageously standing up against the Trump administration on the importance of preserving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in our public schools. Wine and food will be served!
Sign up here for our Annual Parent Action Conference on June 7th 2025, with keynote speaker Jamaal Bowman!
Sign here to urge NYC to implement a real, multi-year strategy to lower class size, as the law intends, without exempting up to half or more of all students.
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